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Tony Snow Was Good at His Job
Tony Snow Was Good at His Job
Appreciation
Jul 12, 2008 2:34 PM CDT

Tony Snow Was Good at His Job

Press secretary won over a hostile press corps with wit, knowledge

(Newser) - When Tony Snow took over as press secretary 2 years ago, the White House press corps wanted blood. Snow’s predecessors, the hostile Ari Fleischer and misinformed Scott McClellan, had left a bad taste in their mouths. But then came Snow, a breath of fresh air who won over the...

Wife Shouldn't Worry Laura Bush: Dowd
 Wife Shouldn't Worry
 Laura Bush: Dowd 
OPINION
Jul 9, 2008 1:11 PM CDT

Wife Shouldn't Worry Laura Bush: Dowd

First lady is sympathetic character in controversial novel

(Newser) - Words like "smear" and "gossip" have flown around American Wife, the novel probing the secret life of Laura Bush, but the book itself is pretty harmless, Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times. Kings and queens have always inspired art, Dowd notes, and Wife isn’t sensationalist—...

First Kids Are Kids First
 First Kids Are Kids First  
Jul 8, 2008 5:23 PM CDT

First Kids Are Kids First

McCain, Obama clans will follow many who've used White House as playground

(Newser) - Whether the Obama girls or the McCain brood move into the White House next, all eyes will be on the new presidential offspring. Saturday Night Live's infamous dig at 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton and Jenna Bush's public underage drinking are reminders that nothing, from braces to boyfriends, escapes the spotlight. Some...

Advisers to Bush: You Asked for It
Advisers to Bush: You Asked for It
Jun 21, 2008 3:44 PM CDT

Advisers to Bush: You Asked for It

Lawyers warned him that detainee policy would backfire

(Newser) - President Bush ignored warnings that his detainee policy would spark a Supreme Court backlash, the Washington Post reports. Top lawyers both in and outside Washington said that jailing suspects without Congressional approval would push the court to rule on national security—but the White House either ignored the advice or...

Party Leaders in House Reach Deal on War Funds

Bipartisan agreement allocates $163B for Iraq, Afghanistan through early 2009

(Newser) - A two-year fight between the White House and Democrats over war funding has been resolved, the New York Times reports. House leaders reached a deal to allocate $163 billion for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through early next year. The measure, expected to be approved by the full House...

Obama Wants Probe of VA Drug Tests
Obama Wants Probe of VA Drug Tests
Jun 18, 2008 12:23 PM CDT

Obama Wants Probe of VA Drug Tests

'Outrageous' that suicide-linked drugs were tested on vets

(Newser) - Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John Cornyn are seeking a probe into reports that veterans had been recruited for tests on drugs linked to suicide, ABC News reports. An ABC News/Washington Times story noted that vets were given the anti-smoking drug Chantix in government tests, but for more than three...

White House Emails Can Stay Missing: Judge

Watchdog group outraged by ruling about lost missives

(Newser) - Records on millions of missing White House emails can stay secret after all, a federal judge ruled today. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly rejected a watchdog group's lawsuit, saying the records are kept in an agency exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. A probe, lawsuit, and appeal are all...

Bush to Overhaul Access for Disabled

Proposal would vastly expand 1990 disabilities act

(Newser) - With an eye to aging Boomers and Iraq vets, the Bush administration is set to propose wide-ranging new rules to improve disabled access to public spaces from retail stores to golf courses, the New York Times reports. The move, which updates  implementation of the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act, would...

More White House Links to Abramoff Revealed

Lobbist had closer ties to administration than its report admitted

(Newser) - The White House didn't go far enough in probing its links with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to a new report from a House committee. The report reveals 70 more contacts between Abramoff's team and White House figures than had been previously acknowledged—including four extra meetings with President Bush,...

Clintons' Dream Has Finally Died
 Clintons' Dream Has Finally Died 
Analysis
Jun 7, 2008 3:47 PM CDT

Clintons' Dream Has Finally Died

Hillary will now learn from Gore, a man she never liked

(Newser) - Bill and Hillary Clinton will stay on the political scene, but today marked the end of an era for America’s top power couple, John Harris writes in Politico. The Clintons have spent nearly 40 years fixated on the White House—it was the organizing principle of their lives together—...

Bush Mob Sets Its Sights on McClellan
Bush Mob
Sets Its Sights on McClellan
Opinion
May 30, 2008 3:55 PM CDT

Bush Mob Sets Its Sights on McClellan

Backlash makes Lupica ponder who's 'the real bum here'

(Newser) - The Bush administration's reaction to Scott McClellan's new book should look familiar to anyone with HBO, with one important difference, writes Mike Lupica in the Daily News. "it has become clear by now that even the hoods from The Sopranos would be out of their weight class with George...

McClellan: I Believed Bush
 McClellan: I Believed Bush 
May 29, 2008 9:16 AM CDT

McClellan: I Believed Bush

Says he's answering 'loyalty to the truth,' that White House wanted him silent

(Newser) - Affection and loyalty blinded Scott McClellan in the run-up to the Iraq war, but now the former press secretary has found a higher allegiance—“a loyalty to the truth.” McClellan, whose book is causing a media storm for alleging President Bush ran a “propaganda” campaign about the...

McClellan Blasts Bush in Harsh New Memoir

Former spokesman says president used 'propaganda' to sell war

(Newser) - Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan blasts President Bush for not being "open and forthright" about the war in Iraq and using "propaganda" to sell it, Politico reports. The president "veered terribly off course," McClellan writes in his surprisingly harsh new memoir. He also criticizes the...

Times Editorial Has White House Seeing Red

Response to editorial swift and sharp

(Newser) - The New York Times lambasted President Bush in an editorial today for opposing the new GI Bill, and the White House swiftly fired back, the Hill reports. The paper “irresponsibly distorted” Bush's opposition to the bill, said a statement from press secretary Dana Perino, who said the editorial "...

Vietnam Vets in Hog Heaven
 Vietnam Vets in Hog Heaven 
May 26, 2008 4:18 AM CDT

Vietnam Vets in Hog Heaven

Rolling Thunder roars into DC to honor vets

(Newser) - Thousands of Harleys roared past Washington's Vietnam Veterans Memorial yesterday in what has become a Memorial Day weekend tradition: the "iron salute" of members of national veterans organization Rolling Thunder.  It's a festival of engines, leather, denim and patriotism, reports the Washington Post.

Carter Aide Hamilton Jordan Dead at 63
Carter Aide Hamilton Jordan Dead at 63
Obituary
May 21, 2008 3:07 AM CDT

Carter Aide Hamilton Jordan Dead at 63

Architect of Carter's White House run succumbs to cancer

(Newser) - Jimmy Carter's former chief of staff, Hamilton Jordan, has died at the age of 63 after battling cancer for more than 20 years, AP reports. Jordan was at the core of Carter's "Georgia Mafia," and helped propel the Democrat into the White House in 1976. "He was...

White House Blasts NBC Over Interview Edit

'Deceitful' cut took Bush out of context, counselor complains

(Newser) - The White House went after NBC yesterday, accusing the network of doctoring a recent interview with President Bush, the Hill reports. Asked if comments about Iran were directed at Democratic candidate Barack Obama, Bush declined to answer directly, but White House counselor Ed Gillespie says the interview was purposely edited...

America's Most Haunted
 America's Most Haunted 
May 11, 2008 3:31 PM CDT

America's Most Haunted

Murders, ghostly encounters add mystery to historic sites

(Newser) - Your local graveyard may be creepy, but mazelike mansions and murderous history make up LifeScience’s list of the most haunted places in America:
  1. Winchester Mystery House: More than 100 rooms and staircases leading nowhere fill this San Jose, Calif., mansion, built by its paranoid owner to ward off ghosts.
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Crucial White House Emails Remain Lost

Files from '03 — at start of Iraq war — backed up, but where?

(Newser) - White House emails from March-September 2003—the first few months of the Iraq invasion—still have not been found, the Washington Post reports. An advocacy group is suing for the release of the emails, and federal law requires such high-level communications be preserved. Officials, still searching, say the data might...

Lame Duck Bush Won't Quit
 Lame Duck Bush Won't Quit 
May 3, 2008 12:00 PM CDT

Lame Duck Bush Won't Quit

In last year, he keeps volume up despite little chance of success

(Newser) - With less than a year left in office, President Bush refuses to let his lame-duck status keep him quiet, the Washington Post reports. He continues to push for initiatives that are unlikely to see the light of day, including Alaska oil drilling, more nuclear plants, and a Colombia free-trade deal....

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